Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick, sticky, slippery substance.
- noun Biology A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
- noun Soft moist earth; mud.
- noun A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
- noun Vile or disgusting matter.
- noun Slang A despicable or repulsive person.
- transitive verb To smear with slime.
- transitive verb To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
- transitive verb To vilify or malign (someone), especially publicly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any soft, ropy, glutinous, or viscous substance.
- noun Asphalt or bitumen.
- noun A mucous, viscous, or glutinous substance exuded from the bodies of certain animals, notably fishes and mollusks: as, the slime of a snail. In some cases this slime is the secretion of a special gland, and it may on hardening form a sort of operculum. See slime-gland, clausiliumt and hibernaculum, 3 .
- noun Figuratively, anything of a clinging and offensive nature; cringing or fawning words or actions.
- noun In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud: generally used in the plural.
- To cover with or as with slime; make slimy.
- To remove slime from, as fish for canning.
- To become slimy: acquire slime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To smear with slime.
- noun Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
- noun Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
- noun (Script.), Archaic Bitumen.
- noun (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- noun (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
- noun (Zoöl.) See 1st
Hag , 4. - noun a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality;
viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive;bitumen ; mud containing metallicore , obtained in the preparatorydressing . - noun Any
mucilaginous substance; or amucus -like substance whichexudes from the bodies of certain animals, such assnails orslugs . - noun figuratively, obsolete Human
flesh , seen disparagingly; mere human form. - noun obsolete =
Jew’s slime (bitumen ) - verb transitive To
coat with slime. - verb transitive, figuratively To
besmirch ordisparage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any thick, viscous matter
- verb cover or stain with slime
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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I didnt see any strings on the rocket ship, but when you see the plastic slime inching up the ramp toward our crew, you know its a plastic sheet of slime, and the freaky tie-dye technique with the Venus sky is pure 1960s state of the art.
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They warned the Clinton campaign against engaging in what they called slime politics and Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Standing in slime, struggling with machines that don't work, hosted by merchants who don't care -- this isn't fair to the Oregon consumer who just wants to do the right thing.
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Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior.
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Steele might as well have said “slime is not a crime”.
Think Progress » 170 House Republicans rebuff Steele by voting to ban RNC’s ‘Census’ mailer.
mollusque commented on the word slime
He dreamed of mellowing his pigments as the Old Masters had done--with honey, fig juice, poppy oil, and the slime of pink snails.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1957, Pnin, p. 67
November 16, 2007